Inaba Lab

Mayu Inaba

Principal Investigator

Email:moguro@uchc.edu

I am interested in "changes" that occur during the cell-fate transition. Specifically, we study how these changes are preprogrammed in stem cells and how cells rectify the problem if they fail to process the program correctly.

Samaneh Poursaeid

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: poursaeid@uchc.edu

Samaneh’s research focuses on how niche signals can differently impact cells located inside and outside of the niche.

Vedansh Patel

Undergraduate Student

Email: vedansh.patel@uconn.edu

Vedansh is investigating the roles of histone modification and turnover in cell-fate transition and tumorigenesis.

Stella DiPippo

Research Assistant

Email: dipippo@uchc.edu

Stella is investigating the mechanisms of dedifferentiation using RNAi screening and experimental GSC depletion to identify genes involved in their recovery. 

Emma Kristine Beard

Graduate Student

Email: beard@uchc.edu

Emma’s project examines the stage-specific expression and localization of retrotransposon RNA in spermatocytes. Specific focuses include how expression of these transposons is regulated and the effect of retrotransposon RNA on nuclear architecture and gene expression.

Sophia Bizink

Graduate Student

Email: bizink@uchc.edu

Sophia's project is to identify the mechanism how BMP signal from soma to germline regulates mitochondria morphology in spermatocytes.

Jeffrey Gamer

Research Assistant (Bioinformatics)

Email: gamer@uchc.edu

Jeff is looking for how transposon insertions are diverged in Drosophila melanogaster and closely related species.

Venkatesh Paruchuru

Research Assistant

Email:paruchuru@uchc.edu

Venkat is interested in how oncogenic gene loci in the genome changes during the process of tumorigenesis using induced tumor in fly germline

Adheena Elsa Roy

Student Intern

Email:elsaroy@uchc.edu

Adheena's project is to elucidate the role of somatic support cells during the de-differentiation of germline stem cells utilizing RNAi screening and live imaging.